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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3563657, member: 85693&quot;]Some really nice coins here.&nbsp; A nice toning/patina is one of the things that makes collecting ancients so enjoyable and challenging.&nbsp; Especially with patina, it seems to take a thousand years or more to get some interesting colors going.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a rather strange blue (partial) patina (or deposit?) on a follis of Phocas I got a few years back.&nbsp; It seems to be inert.&nbsp; The photo is a pretty accurate depiction of the color. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]947625[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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